The widening gap between juniors and seniors
@allknowing (142997)
India
March 27, 2025 11:46pm CST
Gone are the days when kids would worry their grand parents to tell them stories Gone are the days when both these generations played together whether indoors or outdoors
Gone are the days when they ate at the table together. Gone are the days when they watched tv together. The younger generation will no more introduce their friends to elders. They make their own choices when it comes to deciding what to wear
What's going on?
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@Fleura (31371)
• United Kingdom
28 Mar
I don't agree. I see children (including mine) engaging with their grandparents and other older relatives and with their friends' grandparents too. But it's a two-way thing, the older people have to be willing to do things the younger ones enjoy as well. Playing board games for example is popular with young and old, or making music if that is something they can do. Those kind of activities transcend age.
As for eating meals together, whoever is in charge has to organise that, for example if parents prepare the meal they should insist that everyone eats together.
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@allknowing (142997)
• India
28 Mar
There are always exceptions and my obsrevaton is how it is perceived in majority of the cases.
Insisting on doing things together - wish it was that easy.
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@DaddyEvil (144474)
• United States
28 Mar
It is true about the person preparing meals needs to insist the family all eat together. That's how mom and dad did it when I was growing up. After I got married, my first wife and I did the same with her two daughters and Pretty after she was born. After we got divorced, Pretty and I still ate together until she was a teenager. Then she was too busy with school work and always begged off eating meals with me. I was busy with my own things and allowed it.
We rarely eat together now. I make the meals and then we carry the food to our bedrooms and both go online or I read while eating.
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@crossbones27 (50247)
• Mojave, California
28 Mar
Its not just them, its everyone, if people Do not trust you, you out family or not Trumps america India same type of leader
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@allknowing (142997)
• India
28 Mar
One should learn to be as independent as possible.
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@DaddyEvil (144474)
• United States
28 Mar
That happens here, too. Our elderly are placed in homes and the family forget them and never bother visiting unless it's to ask grandma/grandpa for money. They bleed all the money the old people have and never visit again.
There is a new-ish movement among elderly people. If their family doesn't visit often enough, the elderly person/people sue the family and the judge orders them to visit on a weekly basis. If they don't visit according to the schedule the judge sets, the family can be forced to sit in jail (usually the elderly parent's kids) for a week or more each time they fail to visit.
That screws with the income of the family so they don't "forget" again. It causes resentments and bad feelings all around.
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@allknowing (142997)
• India
28 Mar
@DaddyEvil That assistant living thing should be made available all over the world as today children have their own share of responsibility and cannot do what they may want to for their parents.
Your maternal grand parents did the right think by opting for assisted living Their longevity is worthy of note
Your Dad I see had hard times.
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@DaddyEvil (144474)
• United States
28 Mar
@Fleura That's all the story my dad ever told about his parents that I can recall. Dad was always telling stories about his life and the friends he met along the way. (Mom always said dad never met a stranger and then said the same about me when I was a young adult. We both just talk to people and they become friends. *shrug* Pretty, when we were on vacation to California once asked me if I knew everyone in the world because I'd visit with people and they'd offer to help us with anything we needed.)
I only know more about mom's parents because after dad passed away, mom talked about them when we were working outside in the garden or when I was learning to cook. Some of the things I cook came from mom's mother. *shrug*
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@Fleura (31371)
• United Kingdom
28 Mar
@DaddyEvil That is such a story, you should write more about it, write a book even. Your mom's parents did fantastically well in staying healthy and active so long. On the other hand what a struggle your dad and his family had, and so sad to lose both parents so young and in the same way.
In the early(ish) days of tractors many people were killed or seriously injured in accidents when the tractors rolled. And of course what a disaster if the main worker on a farm is killed, the family would probably have to sell up and then what? It took a long time before roll bars and crash protection were introduced.
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@psanasangma (7307)
• India
28 Mar
Shall I blame the introduction of smartphone ? or is the the just the generation ... I am just still thinking
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@allknowing (142997)
• India
28 Mar
It is what is available that is more interesting than wanting to spent time with family
@Tampa_girl7 (52186)
• United States
28 Mar
I adored my grandparents. This generation is really missing out. How sad.
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@dgobucks226 (36339)
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29 Mar
I wonder if it's because youngsters seem to grow up so quickly now adays. I think when they reach a certain age they become more independent and involved with their friends.
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